Tire of vehicle-wheels.



P. ROSE.

TIRE 0F VEHICLE WHEELS.

APILIOATION FILED 111111.31,1911.

1&038441-1 Patented ept 10, 1912.

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FREDERICK RGSE, O LVEEPOOL, ENGLAND.

'rien or VEHICLE-WHEELS.

Specification of Letters Patent;

Patented Sept. 10, 1912.

Application :tiled March 31, 1911. Serial No. 618,103.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, Fnnnnnicii Rose., L.D.S., ltOS., a subject of the King of England, residing at Liverpool, in the county oil" Lancaster, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in and Connected with the Tires oit vlVehicle-llheels; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, end exact description of the invention, such as will enuble others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, refer` ence beinlgr had to the accompanying drawingsJ and to letters or figures .of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

'lhis invention has reference to the 'tires oit' vehicle wheels and the like, and more particularly to that kind of tire wherein `the tread portion is composedof or contains.

rubber and canvas or other like textile fabric, the latter being so disposed in the body of the rubber that the ends or edges ot the fabric come next to the road sur- Ytace on or over whichy the wheel travels.

Y lin tires or tire treads hitherto constructed ci' textile fabric and rubber it has been pro-v posed to arrange the fabric in the rubber so es to be so disposed in the treed as to act edgewise on'the road surface. struction however, has not been satisfactory; andthe priinsry object otthis invention is to render 'tires of the kind concerned satisfactor I, {end .to generally improve them.

ln the oll'owingrde'scripton of en outer cover for la`pneu1inatie ftirel'the improvements 'under this invention are comprised.

The invention; is illustrated in the accompanying drawng's'finwhich-f" ,y Figure lis across-*section oi. e tire seoording; to the inventiuina snclFig. 2 fis e, longitudinal section; while Figs und@ are side View endend view respectively; of

, e bloeit or set of laminas. d5

'el being;

This conblocks which also constitutes e, spring; and these rubber portions c. 'and d are, in .the completed tire, practically one, end' provlde spring supports to the vblocks l) in all 60A directions and allow play or movement of ythem in all directions.

The drawings, especially Figs. 2' und 3, y illustrate the oblique placing of the textile or like materiel lsminae constituting the blocks b, and by an Obliquity of about that shown., the tires are rendered immune or practically immune against puncture.'

The blocks b are mede of crescent formJ es shown more clearly in Figs. 3 and ll; they being relatively breed at thel center or highest part, and tapering down gradually to their edges; and the several laminas of. canvas or the like of which they' are formed, are cut to this shape, and will be '75 coated on one or both sides by a thin lilm or wash of rilbber or like materiel, in some cases, in addition to their being improbnated with rubber. The pieces of crescent form are in building up a *block 6, teken and laid on a mandrel, or the tire backing or foundation' itself, at a'n oblique angle, such as shown, one upon the other.' and adhered together by rubber or the like'7 on one or. both surfaces; and the oblique crescent shaped blocks thus formed, are then laid j on the foundation or backing a, upon the layer of rubber or like material l thereon, and assembled, end finished: a` relativel thick lamine c of rubber being provide "9u between all the blocks t, so that the J are f supportedjl in fact, on. springs bothjre' inl-ly and cir'cu" ferentially. i

Y By `thisl construction of tire;wliei. the@l fwhe'el is rotating under e vehicle,v theweightfpeoi'fathe csrlcompresses they laminaeclose tot; gether7 so 'rendering' its power 'etAresistiligf:y puncture greater. v In` use, the textile tangential' onobliqu pieces will lie, as regards the". direcbien",' revolution ofthe wheeh with -the 11p-pnl, edges (that is, those et the surface)4 to the rear, redially, oi. the inner edggjes;v It wth fromy s treed or tire constructed "es desmribsid,l it, the tire, must alweys'beplaced onthewheel 'in' 'this direction.,

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thus befseen that toobtaiu the best resultsffy, Iiol-'f' '.lhe spaced, obliquely disposed elastici roi I times rigid with the body of the tire. Hence, Whenload pressure is 'applied to the 'tire structure, the tread portions ofthe blocks will yield along s substantially horizontal line, While the inner or. smail ends remain fixed. l

What is claimed is:-- A vehicle Wheel tire tread comprising' zi tread foundation, a continuous elastic meinber mounted on the treed foundation and provided ,with upstanding projections which are obliquely disposed relativeiy to radial lines passing through the axis of the Wheel, the body portion of said elastic member and the oblique opstanding projections, constitilting the weils of pockets sind crescent' shaped blocks of considerably great/er thickness, than the upstanding projections and Lessen .Which t into the pockets, each crescent shape block comprising a plurality of lay- I 

